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The most influential small music venue there’s ever been?

Shortly after he joined that long-running group in 1987, it rose from obscurity to chart-topping success in what came to be called the Cool Britannia era.

Steve Mackey, the lauded bassist, songwriter and producer who made his name laying down dance-floor-friendly grooves for the British band Pulp during

Rory Gallagher, born in Co Donegal and raised in Co Cork, is remembered as one of the best blues guitar players in the world.

Tonight (February 2nd) on the world famous Classic Album at Midnight on Radio Nova we’re playing Genesis’s A Trick of the Tail.

Green released his next album, Al Green Gets Next to You, at the end of 1970 which featured his legendary first hit single, “Tired of Being Alone.” In 1972, Green released “Let’s Stay Together,” which reached number eight on the pop charts, and four months later he released “I’m Still in Love with You,” which reached number four on the charts. His songs “Call Me,” “Here I Am,” and “Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy...

A rock guitarist from Ledbury has written a fiction book based on his life and career.

30 years ago, a struggling indie band from England released a classic, but it still has yet to achieve its full appreciation.

Here’s why the artist born Lizzie Douglas remains a blues guitar legend

When the Kiwi indie label got a chance to record a live album by the Manchester band, the tensions fraying the group almost destroyed the record company – as documented in a new book